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Diablo.IncGamers

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Diablo: IncGamers, formerly known as Diii.net and Diabloii.net as well as nicknamedDii.net is the largest fan community for Diablo 3 on the internets. Its history over the last decade is quite extensive.

Diabloii.net was created by Elly and Rush, and was born in 1997, as an updated, Diablo 2-themed version of an earlier page that had focused on Diablo I and Hellfire. Writer and content contributors Flux and Gaile joined the effort in 1998 and 1999, respectively, and along with numerous contributors from the community, built what many fans considered to be the best single-game website on the Internet.

Diabloii.net grew hugely busy during the early 2000s, when Diablo II and its expansion were popular, and the site maintained a high popularity all through the 00s. Diabloii.net staff were invited over to Blizzard North, and as a sign of how important the site has been for the community, Elly, Flux and Gaile are also featured in the Diablo II expansion as Mercenaries.

Gaile later moved on as a Community Manager over at ArenaNet, taking care of GuildWars.

In mid-2008 the site was redesigned and upgraded, and reborn as Diii.net, with a primary focus on Diablo III.

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In spring 2008, everyone believed the next game to be announced at the Blizzard WWI in Paris would be Diablo III, and spirits were high. In June, the site got it's first major facelift in a decade, and upgraded it's name from Diabloii.net to Diii.net, a friendly hint to fans of the site, who used to call the site "Dii.net".

With the new site a much easier way to add news was added, and a CMS that allowed for guest authors. The forums got new Diablo 3 subsections, and the whole community shifted gear a in anticipation of the third Diablo game.

The Diablo: IncGamers site is renowned for its diverse and plentiful information. Much of the Diablo II info became the base on which DiabloWiki.net was created. Even with most of those information pages now gone in the new version of the site, they live on in the wiki, and the site still holds a massive guides library, image gallery and forums as well as articles and columns.

Diablo: IncGamers is likely the most active news feed for Diablo-related news available. Often several news items per day and the full list on the front page is completely refreshed in a day or two. The extended list seldom reach a week backwards.

The art and screenshot gallery of Diii.net is one of the biggest on the internet. It's very useful to find new Diablo III art and screenshot as well as material from Diablo II and Diablo I. The gallery also keeps a lot of pictures from events, Blizzard HQ as well as fan art, wallpapers etc.

A large group of individuals have been promoted for their enthusiasm in Diii.net's community to be made moderator for a forum or subforum. Without these wonderful people, the forums of Diii.net would be as messy as those on Battle.net.